Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games

Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games

by Michael "the Wizard Of Odds" Shackleford
Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games

Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games

by Michael "the Wizard Of Odds" Shackleford

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Overview

Plenty of gambling books explain how to play the games; that's Gambling 101. Gambling 102 takes you to the next stage, playing in the best way with the least amount of effort. Quick chapters (some as brief as two or three pages) cut right to the heart of each of nearly two dozen games, providing you with, first, an assessment of the odds you face, and second, the basic strategies you need to lower them as much as possible.

When should I raise in Three Card Poker? How will reduced juice affect my sports-betting results? And, of course, how do I pick the best blackjack game and video poker machine? Best of all, this revised and updated third edition contains three brand new chapters on what the Wizard calls "vulturing" slot machines that can be beaten when playing conditions present a player advantage.

Gambling 102 is the product of years of mathematical analysis, computer modeling, and actual casino play. If you believe in luck or hunches, you probably need another book. But if you believe that mathematics guides you to the best ways to approach games of chance, then Gambling 102 is the book for you.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940186202264
Publisher: Huntington Press
Publication date: 10/20/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 260,731
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Michael Shackleford took after his father with an interest in math, and after graduating from the University of California-Santa Barbara, landed a job as an actuary for the Social Security Administration, where he largely analyzed effects of changes in the Social Security laws. While working as an actuary for the SSA, Shackleford introduced his popular gambling website, Wizardofodds.com, which took on a life of its own. In 2000 he left his government job to devote full time to the website and a consulting business for the gambling industry. Today he keeps busy with his website analyzing new casino games for game inventors, designing slot machines, teaching a casino math class at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and serving as a consultant to land-based and Internet casinos around the world.
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